From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these ...

But its popularity is undeniable. An entry for the term was recently added to Among the New Words, a dictionary that is part of a quarterly installment of the journal American Speech.

New words can come into being in a variety of ways. The speakers of one language, for example, might borrow terms from another if there is no one-word equivalent for a particular concept, as was ...

The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of in-house developers and designers, Pears is a word game for people who know their way around a dictionary and the internet. If a word is part of ...

“Basically, what we’re doing is equalizing. There’s a new word that I came up with, which is probably the best word,” he said. “We’re gonna equalize, where we’re all gonna pay the same.

President Donald Trump took credit for creating a new word after issuing an executive order to lower drug prices in the United States. But the word has been used for centuries.